Rewritten Theology – Aquinas After His Readers

Mark D. Jordan is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Ordering Wisdom: The Hierarchy of Philosophical Discourse in Aquinas (1986), The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1997), The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (2000) and The Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2001).

Preface. Abbreviations and Editions. 1 St. Thomas and the Police. 2 The Competition of Authoritative Languages. 3 Imaginary Thomistic Sciences. 4 Thomas's Alleged Aristotelianism or Aristotle Among the Authorities. 5 The Protreptic of Against the Gentiles. 6 The Summa of Theology as Moral Formation. 7 What the Summa of Theology Teaches. 8 Philosophy in a Summa of Theology. 9 Writing Secrets in a Summa of Theology. Conclusion: Writing Theology after Thomas -- and His Readers. Index.